Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Miles Bland
Reference number: HS/4/157
Date: January 1831
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Draft letter. Takes a lively interest in his application for a professorship at Durham. Remembers him gratefully as his coach for mathematics while at Cambridge.
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- HS/4/157
- Earliest possible date
- January 1831
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Miles Bland, January 1831, HS/4/157, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_4_157/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-miles-bland, accessed on 22 July 2026
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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